id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4242 Nathanael West - Wikipedia .html text/html 2599 288 72 Nathanael West (born Nathan Weinstein; October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was an American author and screenwriter.[1] He is remembered for two darkly satirical novels: Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939), set respectively in the newspaper and Hollywood film industries. By then, West was within a group of writers working in and around New York City that included William Carlos Williams and Dashiell Hammett.[citation needed] West and Ingster's screenplay was abandoned, but the text can be found in the Library of America's edition of West's collected works.[citation needed] Another biography, Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney, by Marion Meade was published in 2010.[citation needed] Main article: Bibliography of Nathanael West Nathanael West, Novels and Other Writings (Library of America, 1997) ISBN 978-1-883011-28-4 Woodward, Joe, Alive Inside the Wreck: A Life of Nathanael West (New York: OR Books, 2011) Works by Nathanael West ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4242.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4242.txt